Yaris Sedan Deadening and Sound system upgrade

[derickveliz2]

Is this a good approach for RTA?

LINK

D.

[sqcomp]

Funny you should ask this. As of Saturday, I'm a certified IASCA judge! The link is a general way to do RTA measurements.

The one program that is REALLY nice to use is TermLab.

http://www.termpro.com/storefront/page605.html

Neat thing is, that since I did so well on the certification test, IASCA invited me to judge 2012 SBN/INAC in Daytona Florida! Sweeeeeet!

[derickveliz2]

Congratulations!

Now give me the RAT for Dummies! at Yaris oriented. LOL

D.

[sickpuppy1]

Does that affect your abilities to compete?

[sqcomp]

Not at all actually. Some of our judges at the show were competing. They obviously didn't judge their own class.

I had two teammates at the show...I didn't judge the classes they were in. I did the Rookie class. That was truly a revealing and challenging class. Oh, Derick, you'd be in the Amateur class in IASCA because of the build out of the front stage. Not rookie.

For some reason I can't get a Youtube video to post as a window. Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O96MFyWh5PE

^something fun from the show. No, he's not holding onto the shirt...

[derickveliz2]

Originally Posted by sqcomp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O96MFyWh5PE

^something fun from the show. No, he's not holding onto the shirt...

Is that Healthy? I bet it's not covered by health insurance! for how long can you listen to such a thing?

D.

[sqcomp]

I'm saying! No, it's not healthy. I cannot, however, tell you how to play your system. If he wants to lose his hearing (more), by all means, it's his hearing.

He was burping the vehicle in the low 30 Hz frequency range. It'll get close to 160 dB.

[derickveliz2]

Originally Posted by sqcomp

I'm saying! No, it's not healthy. I cannot, however, tell you how to play your system. If he wants to lose his hearing (more), by all means, it's his hearing.

He was burping the vehicle in the low 30 Hz frequency range. It'll get close to 160 dB.

What? I didn't hear you!



It may be good for the sinus


I agree on the sentence... "I cannot, however, tell you how to play your system"

I found out that it gets very personal in terms on car-audio...
I shared my Sound Quality system with other guys around here and...
they give a Sh...(3.1416)..t about it, if they can't hear you blocks away or if you don't have two 15's... is meaning less!

Unless they get to sit down at the steering wheel of a Red Yaris!




So "Amateur class in IASCA" haaa NICE! I like it!!!



D.

[sqcomp]

Whelp...

Here were the two IASCA amateurs that were showing at the sound off:













These were the IASCA Pros that were showing at the sound off:



















And this was the only Expert car:



















Thoughts?

[derickveliz2]

Mmmm my yaris looks faster! LOL

Nice set ups, I wish I had the time to finish mine and get it to that point!

Sqcomp... the RCA cables from behind the HU, (Sub,Low,Mid,High) I'm running them on the drivers side! once in a while, when I stick my hands in there I get an electrical interference, did you run your wires over the passenger's side?

D.

PS... I saw another P99 there, some ID woofers and horns, an another with a sub up front! but no one with Mids+Tweeters up in the A-pillars!

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[sqcomp]

I did run mine on the passenger's side, yes.

Mids and tweets in the a-pillar is sort of a "bad boy" thing in the car audio realm.

[derickveliz2]

Originally Posted by sqcomp

I did run mine on the passenger's side, yes.

Mids and tweets in the a-pillar is sort of a "bad boy" thing in the car audio realm.

I think I'll try to move the RCAs to the passenger's side



So tell me more about "bad boy"!

I got the feeling that is the most clever location (if possible) also depends on the vehicle. But what is the most common set up in the car audio realm?

D.

[sickpuppy1]

I ran all mine down the passenger side too. No interference at all for me.

[sqcomp]

That'd be a toss up between kick pod mounting and door mounting with a high tweeter mount...

Oooh! Just ordered the new amps today. I'm not going the Voce route. I'm doing a couple surfboards @ 25" long and 10" wide (450x2 and perhaps around 1300x1) plus a smaller one that's only 17" long and 10" wide (120x2+240x2)...

BIG power, means big head room.

[derickveliz2]

Originally Posted by sqcomp

That'd be a toss up between kick pod mounting and door mounting with a high tweeter mount...

Oooh! Just ordered the new amps today. I'm not going the Voce route. I'm doing a couple surfboards @ 25" long and 10" wide (450x2 and perhaps around 1300x1) plus a smaller one that's only 17" long and 10" wide (120x2+240x2)...

BIG power, means big head room.

What are the cons and pros from a kick pod/door mounting with a tweeter high mounted? versus Mid+Tweeter on A-Pillars?

BTW as of today, did you notice that we almost have the same post count? Sqcomp...1,565 Me...1,569

AND... Yes I know what you mean with "Big Head Room"... testing my PB amp per your suggestions... plugging another amp (my old ones, included the Premier 4 channel Class A amp 4x65w.) and the difference is there, so I know what you mean.
CONGRATULATIONS with your new amps! I'm jealous! but... what did you ordered?

Today was so HOT, that the glue holding the rings in place for the MIDs melted down! I need to finish them up and glass them, shame on me. Too much stuff going on right now, some thing big is cooking! (o:

D.

[sqcomp]

Digital Designs (2) S2b...2 x 450 @ 4 Ohms, quad power transformers, and Burr Brown op-amps. 25" long and almost 10" wide...the MAP on those are $1100 a piece.



And then (1) S4b...120x2+240x2 @ 4 Ohms...the MAP on this one is $900.




I'm talking BIIIIGGGG headroom. The power output is true, it's not one of those fake output amplifiers. 450 x 2 without even cracking a sweat. Can you imagine 450 x 2 on your L6's? Yeah baby!

[derickveliz2]

Where and how much are you spending on these Beauties!/Beasts/Audio Climax gems?

D.

[sqcomp]

Before you get too excited, let me get mine in...I'll crack the cases and I'll take pics and we'll take a closer look these.

Jim sells the line. Before you jump on board, let me give them a try. The MAP on the S2b is $1100 and the MAP on the S4b is $900. Am I paying that much...no.

These seem to me to be a modern version of old school engineering. We'll see. I'll let you know what it all looks like.